US Patent Issued to Intrinsic Innovation on Aug. 25 for "Polarized semi-global matching" (American, Swiss, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,391, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Polarized semi-global matching" was invented by Achuta Kadambi (Los Angeles), Raghav Khanna (Zurich), Agastya Kalra (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kerim Doruk Karinca (Mountain View, Calif.), Tomas Gerlich (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Vage Taamazyan (Balashikha, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detection of pixel correspondences in stereo imaging through the use of polarization data. One of the methods include: obtaining a first image from a first viewpoin...